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Aixtron Provides Deposition System to EPFL for 2D Materials Research
Sep 27, 2017Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that Switzerland’s école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has purchased a BM NOVO system. The versatile tool, which can produce ...
Tags: 2D Materials, Deposition System
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CSEM, NREL and EPFL Raise Silicon-Based Multi-Junction Solar Cell Efficiency Record
Aug 30, 2017The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique) and EPFL (école Polytechnique ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Microtechnology
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Perovskite Solar Cells to See Commercialization in 2019-2021
Apr 15, 2016Hailed as the next generation of photovoltaic material, it is hoped that perovskite solar cells will drive adoption in new applications. While there are challenges to be overcome, perovskites offer several new opportunities for partnerships ...
Tags: Thin-film PV
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Electronic Circuits with Reconfigurable Pathways Closer Will Be on Market
Feb 2, 2015Will it be possible one day to reconfigure electronic microchips however we want, even when they are in use? A recent discovery by a team at EPFL suggests as much. The researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to create conductive ...
Tags: electronic microchips, Electrical
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Researchers Are Fine-Tuning a Technology That Transforms Wet Algal Biomass Into a Biogas
Feb 27, 2014Could microalgae fuel the future? Researchers are fine-tuning a technology that transforms wet algal biomass into a biogas that is compatible with today's natural gas infrastructure. Microalgae derived biogas is becoming an increasingly ...
Tags: microalgae fuel, biogas, save resources
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Topological Insulators Are The Key to Future Spintronics Technologies
Feb 26, 2014Topological insulators are the key to future spintronics technologies. EPFL scientists have unraveled how these strange materials work, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles on the way to next-generation applications. Spintronics is an ...
Tags: EPFL, Future Electronic, Material, Physical Review Letters
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The Mechanism of The Functioning of a New Type of Solar Cell Is Unraveled by Scientists
Jan 22, 2014Swiss scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which novel, revolutionary solar cells based on lead iodide perovskite light-absorbing semiconductor transfer electrons along their surface. The finding shows these devices constitute a new ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Solar Cell, Energy, Solar
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Biologists Have Studied The Functionality of a Poorly Understood Category of Genes
Jan 20, 2014Biologists have studied the functionality of a poorly understood category of genes, which produce long non-coding RNA molecules rather than proteins. Some of these genes have been conserved throughout evolution, and are present in 11 ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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New-Generation Sensor Capable of Detecting Very Small Forces with Unprecedented Efficiency
Jan 10, 2014Last year, Tobias Kippenberg and his team from the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM1) presented a new-generation sensor capable of detecting very small forces with unprecedented efficiency. These devices, developed and ...
Tags: Tobias Kippenberg, Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements
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Team Create a Thin Film Low Cost Photovoltaic Device with High Power Conversion Efficiency
Dec 30, 2013A group of researchers led by Hendrik Bolink of the Institut de Ciència Molecular (ICMol) of the Scientific Park of the University of Valencia has developed a thin film low cost photovoltaic device with high power conversion ...
Tags: Hendrik Bolink, Institut de Ciència Molecular, photovoltaic device
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Atheris Laboratories and Debiopharm Announced The Signature of a Collaboration Agreement
Oct 29, 2013Atheris Laboratories and Debiopharm have announced the signature of a collaboration agreement regarding the Atheris 'Reverse-Discovery' lead optimization platform. Collaboration with Atheris is expected to accelerate Debiopharm's ongoing ...
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The Campus Biotech Consortium Has Purchased Merck Kgaa's Geneva Headquarters
May 23, 2013The Campus Biotech Consortium has purchased Merck KGaA (MRK)'s Geneva headquarters to create a biotechnology campus. Details of the transaction have not been revealed, however, it is expected that the 725,000ft2 property would be handed ...
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A Single Core Can Concentrate Sunlight by up to 15 Times in Intensity
Apr 15, 2013Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institut in Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have shown that a single core–shell p–i–n junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowire ...
Tags: Solar Cell, GaAs
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SPTS Received Multiple Orders From Several European Research and Development Institutions
Apr 11, 2013Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK says it has received multiple orders from several European research and development (R&D) institutions, including the Delft Institute ...
Tags: SPTS Etch SiC, Electrical, Electronics, thermal processing equipment
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Pre-Shrunk Nano-Capillaries Have Had Their End Diameter Reduced to a Few Nanometers
Mar 28, 2013A few of these commercial pre-shrunk nano-capillaries have had their end diameter reduced to a few nanometers, from an original 200 nm, thanks to an electron microscope at EPFL's Center for MicroNanotechnology. Credit: Alain Herzog / EPFL. ...
Tags: glass, glass industry, glass market